Lahore: February 10, 2019. (Asif Munawar) A Peoples Assembly under the aegis of Peoples Commission for Minorities’ Rights (PCMR) and Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) approved a draft bill for establishing a National Commission for Minorities’ Rights here on Sunday. 

The

Berlin: February 9, 2019. (PCP) The issue of the persecution of the religious minorities in Pakistan is not new for the International community. Pakistan who has been declared as one of the dangerous countries for the Religious Minorities by the US state department, PEW research centre, Open door

Lahore: February 8, 2019. (PCP) The National Accountability Bureau NAB arrested Senator Kamran Michael here today on charges of enjoying life without means. In a press release NAB said that when Kamran was Federal Minister for Port and Shipping during Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz PML (N) governme

Australia: February 8, 2019. (PCP) Nissar Hussain is a man born and raised in the United Kingdom who became a Christian convert when he defected from Islam. He lived in Bradford and local Muslims, in what can only be characterised as a macabre and diabolical hate crime, repeatedly brutalised him

Islamabad: February 8, 2019. (PCP) Religious minority rights have a long way to go with ineffective job quotas keeping them in the gutter. Pakistan's highly educated sewage workers fill quotas while the careers they trained for remain unattainable. UK Peer Lord Alton has expressed his condemn

Hyderabad: February 2, 2019. (PCP) The 52 bonded laborers from Brick Kiln facility were released on orders of 3rd Additional Session Judge Hyderabad here today. All these men, women and children were from minority community.

 Advocate Sooba Bhatti who is HFO Coordinator, Advocate A

London: February 1, 2019. (PCP) The Upper House of Pakistan’s Parliament has approved a draft bill raising the minimum marriage age to 18 years.

The meeting of the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights unanimously approved the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill, 2018.

London: February 1, 2019. (PCP) In the wake of the landmark Asia Bibi case, the poignant and tragic case of a Pakistani Christian woman who was recently exonerated after ten years incarcerated on erroneous blasphemy charges, a report into global Christian persecution has been commissioned. UK For

Tehran: January 31, 2019. Iranian Christians request prayer following the arrests of five female converts from Islam to Christianity. These include Ruhsari Kamberi, a 65-year old  who was arrested and detained in Karaj, and forced to endure ten days of intensive interrogation.

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Islamabad: January 31, 2019. (PCP) The leaders of Pakistani Christian community have highly appreciated decision by Supreme Court of Pakistan decision to free Asia Bibi. The decision on review petition filed by one Muslim extremist group was announced on January 29, 2019, by a Bench of Supreme Co

Islamabad: January 29, 2019. (PCP) The review petition against the acquittal of Asia Bibi has been dismissed on merit by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on January 29, 2019.

There is nothing new in the petition which was filed by Qari-Ul-Islam (the petitioner) in the supreme court of Paki

MANILA, PHILIPPINES: January 28, 2019.  (BosNewsLife) Two bomb blasts shook a Catholic cathedral in the troubled southern Philippines where Islamic militants are active, killing at least 20 people and wounding some 80 others, police officials said.

The first explosion went off insi

PHILIPPINES: January 28, 2019. (PCP) Two incendiary devices which exploded at a Roman Catholic cathedral in southern Philippines on Sunday on 27th January 2019, have killed 20 people and injured dozens more.

Hours after the attack Islamic State (IS) confirmed they were responsible for t

Islamabad: January 26, 2019. (PCP) The Supreme Court of Pakistan have fixed January 29, 2019, to hear Review Petition on Asia Bibi case filed by one Muslim extremist group called TLP who opposed release of Asia Bibi from Multan Jail.

According to records available on review petitions, t

Lahore: January 22, 2019. (PCP) Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) appealed to Supreme Court of Pakistan for suo-motu action on torture issue of Saima Niaz aged 20 and her cousin Saneha (Salma) Mushtaq aged 11, both Christian domestic workers detained by employers and brutally tortured by police